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Fishead soup



Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:36 pm    Post subject: No real teaching until march Reply with quote
The exams are finished. The students consider the year to be over.
Pretty soon the korean teachers will be showing Harry Potter in Class.
If you think classes were bad before just wait. Also don't expect to do any real co-teaching.
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004
PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I remember making this exact same post last year.
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Fishead soup



Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yu_Bum_suk wrote:
I remember making this exact same post last year.


I remember it.
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sojourner1



Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
So what do you do in public school from now until March 1st other than Winter camps? Do you sit in the office a lot and be bored or do you take some time off?
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nomad-ish



Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: On the bottom of the food chain
PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:07 pm    Post subject: Re: No real teaching until march Reply with quote
Fishead soup wrote:
The exams are finished. The students consider the year to be over.
Pretty soon the korean teachers will be showing Harry Potter in Class.
If you think classes were bad before just wait. Also don't expect to do any real co-teaching.


don't remind me.... i've planned really great christmas lessons for my 3rd years and they've already checked out. i'm finding my 3rd years in middle school to be unbearable lately, but my 2nd year classes were cancelled for all this week, so i can't complain too much...
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cruisemonkey



Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cool, isn't it? My last day of 'real' teaching was Nov. 29th (the 30th was the school's festival)... sure beats my old job! Very Happy
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nomad-ish



Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: On the bottom of the food chain
PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
sojourner1 wrote:
Do you sit in the office a lot and be bored or do you take some time off?


wishful thinking. we're expected to teach still, but basically since many have already written their exams, it's hard to keep their attention. many will just resort to videos or a class-long game of some kind.
i'm trying to do half a lesson and then a game/video for the other half, but even still, it's difficult to get the kids to listen
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renzobenzo1



Joined: 08 Sep 2007
Location: Suji, Yongin
PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
So it's fairly understandable and reasonable for us to be showing videos this time of year?
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renzobenzo1



Joined: 08 Sep 2007
Location: Suji, Yongin
PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
So it's fairly understandable and reasonable for us to be showing videos this time of year?
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Easter Clark



Joined: 18 Nov 2007
Location: Hiding from Yie Eun-woong
PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
For our final week I'm doing a pop song ("Because of You," at the students' request) and a Mr. Bean lesson, then it's vacation time!
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cornie_man



Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Location: Sparkling in Korea
PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Xmas card making and songs next week and a crossword review quiz are the ways in which I'm gonna wrap it up (puzzlemaker from the discovery channel site people!) Mr Bean lesson? That's a good idea!
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waynehead



Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Location: Jongno
PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I just had my first 3rd grade class for the week. I'd sent a message to my two 3rd grade co-teachers asking what they wanted me to do this week, now that exams are over and all. I asked should I do the book lesson that's planned or should I do a game/video something interesting.

Please teach the 'talk and talk' lesson they said.

Ok.

Well, having just finished 45 minutes of hell, let me say good luck to those of you who're gonna try to, you know, teach something for the rest of this month. It was worse than pulling teeth, worse than squeezing blood from a turnip...there's no expression in En